Over the past year, I have spent a lot of time digging into cloud infrastructure and technical tools as a space for investing. One of the emergent behaviors of technology trends is the accelerating advantage of being a winner, played out with network effects…

A computability proof of Gödel’s incompleteness theorem equally as strong as Gödel’s version, but much easier to deduce

In the last post of the series I explained how to get started programming an STM32 microcontroller without any library dependencies. Today we will improve the LED blinking example from last post with the CMSIS library, making it more readable and adding precise…

Developer tools that support multiple programming languages generally have very limited, regex-based code-analysis capabilities. Tree-sitter is a new parsing system that aims to change this paradigm. It provides a uniform C API for parsing an ever-growing…

There is a joke in healthcare: everything revolves around the 3Ps: Provider, Payer & Pharma. If you include the P in Patient, then its not a joke anymore! Healthcare is the biggest, baddest wolf in town and represents the largest chunk of GDP after defense…

Physicists have long searched for hypothesized dark matter particles called WIMPs. Now, focus may be shifting to the axion — an ultra-lightweight particle whose existence would solve two mysteries at…

One of the interesting “what ifs” of history is “what if the 70s-80s commies used computers to do their planned economy.” Men like Kantorovich,  Nikolay Fedorenko and Victor…

Find, open and kill ports in a couple of clicks. Works with Node, Python, Ruby, PHP, HTTP and pretty much any process listening on a TCP port.

"It seemed like we’d failed."

Gaël Varoquaux, computer / data / health science

A year ago today I self-published “A Programmer’s Introduction to Mathematics” (PIM). In this short note I want to describe the success it’s had, summarize the complaints of some readers and the praise of others, and outline what’s next.
Since publication…

Chess openings visualized from over 800 million Lichess games, 2 million tournament games and 1 million chess engine games.

Companion exercises for O'Reilly Media's "Introducing Erlang" - oreillymedia/etudes-for-erlang